Who was the plate umpire who refused to call a hit batsmen against Don Drysdale, thus perserving Drysdale's scoreless innings streak in 1968?

Harry Wendelstadt.

Welll......that Mets/Giants doubleheader is:

1)the longest doubleheader by time in MLB history

2) Game two is the second longest game time-wise in MLB history - second only to the White Sox/Brewers debacle in 1986 (Jim Evans behind the plate, btw)- but THAT game was suspended and continued later, so that Met game is the game played the longest uninterrupted.

3) And is tied with the 86 game as the longest game, by innings, played to a conclusion - the 1920 Brooklyn/Boston Braves 26 inning 1-1 tie is the longest game (26 innings)...but nobody won!

Game 1 was around 2:25 or so, while Game 2 was an excruciating 7:23 -without stopping

I have a friend who was working at Shea that year selling beer, and he said that by the 14th inning, all the vendors and stands had run out of EVERYthing, and that all the Harry M Stevens workers ended up sleeping in the upper deck by games end. The doubleheader started with about 50,000 people there to start...about 500 were there at the end....

Ed Kranepool had been with the Mets AAA club in Buffalo the day before, and played both games of a doubleheader. Right after the game, he was informed the Mets had called him back up - so Kranepool drove overnight directly to Shea, took about a 2 hour nap, and proceeded to play EVERY inning of BOTH games! :eek:

Willie Mays was actually moved to SS for a few innings around the 13th or 14th inning....

The Mets/Astros game is still the longest shutout by innings, and the Cards/Mets game is tied with that Sox/Brewers game as the longest night game by innings in history...although, again, they played that Met game uninterrupted also!

You don't think Sudol had a BIG zone, do you?

www.retrosheet.org has the box scores of all these games -poor Ron Swoboda went 0/10 in the 1968 game - that would take a month to make up!

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml

oops...the White Sox/Brewers marathon was 1984

o.k....For what is umpire Dennis Cregg most famous for?

(And the answer is NOT being a PBUC evaluator).

Plate umpire of the longest game, 33 innings,Pawtucket vs Rochester, 1981. Dennis Cregg

We have a winner. I actually heard "the rest of the story" from him over dinner one night when I was in the minors and he had just evaluated me as a PBUC evaluator.

What umpire called four balls on Eddie Gaedel?

Ed Hurley.

Who was the umpire on the field for Aaron's 715th home run and also for Rose's 4,191st hit?

Fred Brocklander?

The rules say you have to answer a question to ask one.

Sorry. The thread had been dead for a few days so I asked the question.

Nope, not Brocklander.

He was behind the plate for Rose's game.

I don't believe the error (and no call) cost the Reds that game

That would be the late Lee Weyer, who worked the plate that night (Rose). Rose singled in his first at bat, and tripled in the 7th inning off (the late also) Eric Show. Weyer was at 3rd base for Aaron's 715th.

Next question: What umpire had the same nickname as a famous legume, and was the plate umpire in the famous Norman Rockwell painting, "The Bottom of The Sixth?" Hint: He was a National League umpire who favored the outside "Balloon" chest protector.